![]() ![]() The order will not bar transactions with WeChat-owner Tencent Holdings' other businesses, including its online gaming operations, and will not prohibit Apple, Google or others from offering TikTok or WeChat apps anywhere outside the United States. firms like Walmart and Starbucks that use WeChat's embedded "mini-app" programs to facilitate transactions and engage consumers in China, officials said. companies from doing business on WeChat outside the United States, which will be welcome news to U.S. ![]() and bar Apple Inc's app store, Alphabet Inc's Google Play and others from offering the apps on any platform "that can be reached from within the United States," a senior Commerce official told Reuters. The Commerce Department order will "de-platform" the two apps in the U.S. of a significant platform for both a voice and livelihoods." "We will continue to challenge the unjust executive order, which was enacted without due process and threatens to deprive the American people and small businesses across the U.S. "We disagree with the decision from the Commerce Department, and are disappointed that it stands to block new app downloads from Sunday and ban use of the TikTok app in the U.S. Ross said in a written statement "we have taken significant action to combat China's malicious collection of American citizens' personal data, while promoting our national values, democratic rules-based norms, and aggressive enforcement of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said the ban on Tik Tok and WeChat will combat China's 'malicious collection of American citizens' personal data.' (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) Commerce Department officials said they were taking the extraordinary step because of the risks the apps' data collection poses. by eliminating access to these applications and significantly reducing their functionality." The department said the actions will "protect users in the U.S. 12," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told Fox Business Network. "The basic TikTok will stay intact until Nov. 12, which gives the company additional time to see if ByteDance can reach a deal for its U.S. ban.Ĭommerce officials said they will not bar additional technical transactions for TikTok until Nov. ByteDance still needs Trump's approval to stave off a U.S. concerns about the security of its users' data. operations.īyteDance has been in talks with Oracle Corp and others to create a new company, TikTok Global, which aims to address U.S. downloads of TikTok could be still rescinded by President Donald Trump before it takes effect late Sunday as TikTok owner ByteDance races to clinch an agreement over the fate of its U.S. Commerce Department has issued an order that will bar people in the United States from downloading Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok, starting Sunday.Ĭommerce officials said the ban on new U.S. ![]()
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